Michael Douglas to portray Benjamin Franklin in Apple limited series
Michael Douglas will portray Benjamin Franklin in a new TV show. The 'Kominsky Method' actor will also executive produce in addition to starring as the US Founding Father in the Apple TV+ limited series, which will be based on Stacy Schiff's book 'A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America'. The series will explore Franklin's eight-year mission to convince France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy and engineer the alliance between the two countries in 1778 and the final peace with England five years later, despite any diplomatic traini...